Tom Piatak and Pat Buchanan Contrast America and China

"How many watching as Armstrong took his famous step would have believed that, 40 years later, America would essentially be broke, deeply in debt to a country whose citizens spent 1969 adulating history’s greatest mass murderer and actively trying to destroy their country/’s traditions and culture?" asks the former — Far From the Sea of Tranquility.

"China saves, invests and grows at 8 percent," says the latter, while "America, awash in debt, has a shrinking economy, a huge trade deficit, a gutted industrial base, an unemployment rate surging toward 10 percent and a money supply that’s swollen to double its size in a year," says the latter — The End of America.